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'I Got Death Threats For Writing a Bad Review of Aquaman' (huffingtonpost.com)
The Huffington Post recently published a post by one of the 300 members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association -- and a contributing writer to Variety:
I saw "Aquaman" on a brisk Monday morning in December. Though I appreciated that star Jason Momoa didn't take himself too seriously while playing an underwater superhero, the glut of CGI effects distracted me from the story. Which was hollow and nonsensical anyway. As with every movie I watch -- up to four a week, hundreds a year -- I expressed my opinion in print and online for Us Weekly, as well as my own site, MaraMovies.com. The review was also linked on Rotten Tomatoes, where I'm a Top Critic.
Since I had a lot of films on my busy holiday schedule, I quickly moved on. Hundreds of men who read my review did not.... [Example comment: "I will kill your mom, dad and friends Bcoz I want [you] to regret for what u did. I have your address and details about your family members."] I reported the messages to Instagram and was rebuffed because, per the automated response, the vitriol didn't "violate community guidelines." Didn't matter. They found me on Facebook and Twitter, too.... Nearly 2,000 people "liked" a post in which some guy made a collage of my face and a few negative reviews.... I wasn't scared by the threats as I much as I was disheartened. One guy summed it up when he messaged me: "How many of us are you going to block? There are thousands of us."
Ironically, the review wasn't all negative. It called Aquaman "the first live-action D.C. Comics movie in which a superhero actually appears to be having fun. Batman, Superman, the Suicide Squad, even our beloved Wonder Woman tend to behave as if they just lost their 401(k) savings during the apocalypse." Yet rifing on the critic's last name, one commenter still wrote "hope another Holocaust happens."
Instead of "thousands" of angry fans, it could just be hundreds who are using multiple accounts. But there's a larger issue. "I worry that reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications while I'm writing my reviews, thereby compromising my integrity."
Since I had a lot of films on my busy holiday schedule, I quickly moved on. Hundreds of men who read my review did not.... [Example comment: "I will kill your mom, dad and friends Bcoz I want [you] to regret for what u did. I have your address and details about your family members."] I reported the messages to Instagram and was rebuffed because, per the automated response, the vitriol didn't "violate community guidelines." Didn't matter. They found me on Facebook and Twitter, too.... Nearly 2,000 people "liked" a post in which some guy made a collage of my face and a few negative reviews.... I wasn't scared by the threats as I much as I was disheartened. One guy summed it up when he messaged me: "How many of us are you going to block? There are thousands of us."
Ironically, the review wasn't all negative. It called Aquaman "the first live-action D.C. Comics movie in which a superhero actually appears to be having fun. Batman, Superman, the Suicide Squad, even our beloved Wonder Woman tend to behave as if they just lost their 401(k) savings during the apocalypse." Yet rifing on the critic's last name, one commenter still wrote "hope another Holocaust happens."
Instead of "thousands" of angry fans, it could just be hundreds who are using multiple accounts. But there's a larger issue. "I worry that reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications while I'm writing my reviews, thereby compromising my integrity."
Can't figure it out. Also anything from HuffingtonPost is nothing but Feminist propaganda. > /dev/null
Being that Aquaman was aggressively marketed towards women, it's more likely to be some psycho chick with an ax to grind. After all, you know, equality.
That death threat behaviour sounds exactly like the thing that SJWs would do. Pay them no mind, for they are merely effete, toothless children.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL UNTIL YOU ARE BRUTALLY MURDERED
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I've been trying to figure out why folks are so obsessed with SJWism lately.
It is the SJW's that are obsesses, and their obsession is very targeted.
Perhaps you dont mind racism and sexism. Perhaps just like for the SJW's, you also hate white men.
I've got an idea. Go fuck yourself for defending them.
We need a call for a punching-an-sjw movement. Dont like it? Yeah, white men dont like being targeted for punching either.
"His name was James Damore."
After Wonder Woman was the only decent DC movie and held up as proof that a female lead and director can make a good action/comic book movie
Do you fucks really think wonder woman proved that? Why do you hate all that came before her? Why have you invalidated all the other women that came before? Is it that you are wholly ignorant of any other movie from any other time with a strong leading woman kicking ass? or is it that you fucks are just fucking dishonest?
I just watched The Quick And The Dead, yet another movie you fucks apparently forgot about... or are claiming to have forgotten about... or are claiming you are ignorant of...
there was a bit of a backlash from the Men's Rights crowd.
No, there wasn't. There was an attack on men by the marketing department of wonder woman and fucks like you. Which came first, fucker? The marketing department opened with the message that men are going to be mad.
You are not just a disgusting racist sexist sick in the head fuck. You are also a tool for a big corporation. All the people on slashdot that hate you do so because you started it. You generalized. You labeled. You declared yourself the warrior.
You arent a fucking super hero. You are a fucking tool of a corporation. Fucking disgusting shit.
"His name was James Damore."
In the US, we call them, "Trump voters". But in their defense, a large number of them appear to be addicted to opioids, bless their hearts.
https://jamanetwork.com/journa...
You are welcome on my lawn.